Transcript British Education Index and ERIC

Information & Library Services
Australian Education Index,
British Education Index
and
ERIC
Sally Giffen
August 2006
Dialog DataStar hosts:
• AEI: contains more than 130,000
documents relating to educational
research, policy and practice.
• BEI: provides information on
research, policy and practice in
education and training in the UK.
• ERIC: the largest database in the
world relating to education.
Go to university home page – www.gre.ac.uk –
and click on ‘student portal’
Use your university network username and
password to login, in or outside the university
Go to the Library & Computing tab on
the portal
then
Click on
Databases
& Journals
or (via
Athens DA)
if accessing
from home
NB, Athens DA must be used off-campus
From within
the University,
select
Electronic
Databases A-Z
Then British Education
Index – Intranet
access, (or ERIC or
AEI – Intranet Access)
and click to enter the
Database
If using Athens DA, click on Resources to see list
of databases available
From list of
databases, select
Dialog DataStar
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more complex searching, tick and click on Advanced
search.
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Search tips for help. Terms may be linked using
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underachievement,
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underachieve.
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and
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author(s).
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example review articles or
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